Re: [PATCH OSSTEST v7 12/15] Add testing of non-LVM/phy disk backends.

[Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>]

On Mon, 2015-07-06 at 17:01 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Ian Campbell writes ("Re: [PATCH OSSTEST v7 12/15] Add testing of non-LVM/phy disk backends."):
> > On Mon, 2015-07-06 at 16:21 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > > Are some of these jobs not very similar to existing ones ?
> > 
> > They differ in the backing store used for the guest's disks, but
> > otherwise they are quite similar to the existing flight, except they are
> > installed with d-i not xen-create-image.
> 
> I meant the lvm ones.

The list here was:
        for fmt in raw vhd qcow2 ; do
i.e. no LVM.

(as an implementation detail each of the above will in its own LVM LV,
but that's not what I think you were getting at).

> 
> > The use of d-i is simply because it was easier to reuse
> > ts-debian-di-install than to convince xen-create-image to using non-LVM,
> > rather than a particular desire to test d-i in this context.
> 
> So we are add d-i pv storage-on-lvm tests here, as well as
> storage-not-on-lvm tests.  That's good.

We aren't adding that, but we could if you wanted.

Ian.